aviation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French aviation, from Latin avis (“bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *awi- (“bird”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌeɪ.viˈeɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

aviation (usually uncountable, plural aviations)

1. The art or science of making and flying aircraft.
2. Flying, operating, or operation of aircraft.
3. Industry that produces aircraft.
4. (collectively, military) aircraft
5. A cocktail made with gin, maraschino liqueur, crème de violette and lemon juice

Derived terms

• av
• avgas
• aviation blonde
• aviation cruiser
• aviation fuel
• aviation incident
• avionics
• civil aviation
• general aviation
• NADEP
• nonaviation

Translations

art or science of flying

• Albanian: aviacion (sq) m
• Arabic: طَيَرَان m (ṭayarān), مِلَاحَة جَوِّيَّة f (milāḥa(t) jawwiyya)
• Armenian: ավիացիա (hy) (aviacʻia)
• Azerbaijani: aviasiya
• Bashkir: авиация (aviatsiya)
• Belarusian: лётніцтва n (ljótnictva), авія́цыя f (avijácyja), паветрапла́ванне n (pavjetraplávannje), паветрапла́ваньне n (pavjetraplávanʹnje)
• Bengali: বিমানচালনা (bimancalna)
• Bulgarian: въздухопла́ване (bg) n (vǎzduhoplávane), авиа́ция (bg) f (aviácija)
• Burmese: လေကြောင်း (my) (le-kraung:)
• Catalan: aviació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 航空 (hong⁴ hung¹), 飛行 / 飞行 (fei¹ hang⁴)

  Hokkien: 航空 (hâng-khong), 飛行 / 飞行 (hui-hêng)

  Mandarin: 航空 (zh) (hángkōng), 飛行 / 飞行 (zh) (fēixíng)

• Czech: letectví (cs) n
• Danish: luftfart (da) c
• Dutch: luchtvaart (nl) f
• Esperanto: aerveturado
• Estonian: lennundus
• Finnish: ilmailu (fi)
• French: aviation (fr) f
• Galician: aviación (gl) f
• Georgian: ავიაცია (aviacia)
• German: Luftfahrt (de) f, Fliegerei (de) f
• Greek: αεροπορία (el) f (aeroporía)
• Hebrew: תְּעוּפָה (he) f (t'ufá)
• Hindi: विमानन m (vimānan)
• Hungarian: légi közlekedés (hu)
• Icelandic: flugmál n
• Ido: aviaco (io)
• Indonesian: penerbangan (id)
• Irish: eitlíocht f
• Italian: aviazione (it) f
• Japanese: 航空 (ja) (こうくう, kōkū), 飛行 (ja) (ひこう, hikō)
• Kazakh: авиация (aviasiä)
• Khmer: អាកាសចរ (ʼaakaasaʼcɑɑ)
• Korean: 항공(航空) (ko) (hanggong), 비행(飛行) (ko) (bihaeng)
• Kyrgyz: авиация (ky) (aviatsiya)
• Lao: ການບິນ (lo) (kān bin)
• Latvian: aviācija f
• Lithuanian: aviacija f
• Macedonian: воздухопло́вство n (vozduhoplóvstvo), авијација f (avijacija)
• Malay: penerbangan (ms)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: нисэх хүчин (nisex xüčin)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: luftfart (no) m

  Nynorsk: luftfart m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: هَواپِیْمایی (fa) (havâpeymâyi), هَوانَوَرْدی (fa) (havânavardi)

• Polish: lotnictwo (pl) n, awiacja (pl) f (archaic), awiatyka f (archaic)
• Portuguese: aviação (pt) f
• Romanian: aviație (ro) f
• Russian: авиа́ция (ru) f (aviácija), воздухопла́вание (ru) n (vozduxoplávanije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: авијација f, ваздухопловство n, зракопловство n

  Roman: avijacija (sh) f, vazduhoplovstvo n, zrakoplovstvo (sh) n

• Slovak: letectvo n
• Slovene: letalstvo (sl) n
• Spanish: aviación (es) f
• Swahili: elimu ya rubani
• Swedish: flyg (sv) n, luftfart (sv) c, flygväsen n
• Tagalog: abyasyon
• Tajik: ҳавонавардӣ (havonavardi), авиатсия (tg) (aviatsiya)
• Thai: การบิน (th) (gaan-bin)
• Turkish: havacılık (tr)
• Turkmen: awiasiýa (tk)
• Ukrainian: авіа́ція (uk) f (aviácija), повітропла́вання n (povitroplávannja)
• Urdu: ہَوا بازی f (havā bāzī)
• Uzbek: aviatsiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: hàng không (vi) (航空)
• Walloon: aviåcion (wa) f

French

Etymology

Coined by G. de la Landelle together with aviateur; from Latin avis (“bird”) +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.vja.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

aviation f (plural aviations)

1. aviation

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: авиа́ция (aviácija)
• → Catalan: aviació
• → Italian: aviazione
• → Russian: авиа́ция (aviácija) (see there for further descendants)
• → Spanish: aviación
  • → Tagalog: abyasyon
• → Ukrainian: авіа́ція (aviácija)

Further reading

• “aviation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.